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ABSTRACTA comparison is made between earlier studies of French loan words, whose slightly varying methodologies reveal some interesting trends. Most of the earlier studies have restricted them selves to consideration of unaffixed loans taken directly from French with no alteration in sense, but this study compares borrowing from French and Latin as well as considering semantic and morphological development. Borrowing from each language is considered in relation to losses and in relation to the size of the lexis as a whole.

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1995.tb00437.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTGreenberg (1987a) argues, on the basis of his technique of multilateral comparison, for a classification of New World languages into three groups, including the ‘superfamily’ Amerind. Greenberg and his collaborators defend this classification using linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence. In this paper, we assess the validity of all three types of evidence, and pursue the consequences of our assessment for multilateral comparison, for Greenberg's tripartite classification, and for the unity of the ‘Amerind’ phylum. We aim to show that the external evidence Greenberg cites is either not truly independent, or does not strongly support his conclusions, and that his linguistic methodology is both unreliable and statistically intractable.The last temptation is the greatest treason:To do the right deed for the wrong reason.(T. S. Eliot:Murder in the Ca

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1995.tb00438.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis paper examines how change in prosodic organization determined the course of segmental phonological change in early Germanic, with reference to the following three processes: (i) the development of Sievers' law in Gothic; (ii)i‐umlaut in Old Norse; (iii) the shortening of unstressed long vowels in Old English. With the decline of the foot as a super syllabic mora‐counting unit of prosodic organization in favor of a strictly syllable‐based organization, Sievers' law extended the use of /ji/at the expense of /i:/in Gothic; Old Norsei‐umlaut lost the original sensitivity to morale structure; Old English shortening of unstressed long syllables generalized to operate on those vowels that had originally served as a foot cons

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1995.tb00439.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis paper is part of an ongoing effort to demonstrate the validity of the universal claim that systems of versification in natural languages do not have access to any proposed levels of phonological representation deeper or more abstract than the classical phonemic level. Here, we are specifically concerned with the nature of phonological representations at which rhyme is defined in Turkish poetry. We show that the rhyming of vowels which are phonemically distinct (but which alternate under conditions of vowel harmony) is not to be explained by allowing the rhyming rules to operate at an (underspecified) underlying level of representation but rather by assuming that these are imperfect rhymes defined at the phonemic level. This is shown by the low frequency of such rhymes and by the behavior of antirhymes (situations where distinctness rather than identity of line‐final sound sequences is required

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1995.tb00440.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1995.tb00441.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1995.tb00442.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY